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Trivial poll: Do you let your kids mix Play-Doh colors?
Do you let your kids open multiple colors of Play-Doh and mix them together to their heart's content, or do you limit them to playing with just one color at a time?
I saw this question posted on another site today and was really surprised by the answers so I'm curious to see how the responses here compare.
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Re: Trivial poll: Do you let your kids mix Play-Doh colors?
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I have a teeny 10-pack of different colors, but it's just a small amount of each. THOSE he can mix up and muddle to his heart's content.
Then I have regular sized containers of most colors, and THOSE we keep separate. He gets mad if he has no "clean" play-doh, so now we have the best of both worlds!
me too.
We rarely play with it. Emilia thinks it's gum.
lmas at Emilia thinking it is gum
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We make our own playdoh, so I let the kids pick one color/scent at a time. I;m sure they will need therapy.
But, when we had normal play-doh, I let them, but they didn't. Both of my kids are mad-crazy ocd and keep things separated (and lined up).
Nah, I'm the same way.
If I'm making it then I do just one color at a time because it's just easier to make that way.
But if it's store-bought play-doh I pretty much just let them have a free-for-all and they go to town with it. I don't care so much about the colors being mixed as long as it keeps them occupied and I don't have too much of a mess to clean up afterwards.
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My anal, OCD side cringes inside...the realistic, don't be so uptight side of me lets it slide.
Plus, play doh is cheap, you can always get more.
Yes but I like it seperated!! I don't make a big deal about it.
One thing that I wish is is that all crayons would stay nice and new. I love NEW crayons!!!!
This.
This. The girls will happily play with play dough while I fix dinner or whatever at the kitchen table. It is so not worth my energy or time to try to keep the colors separate.
yes, it's not like I can stop him from doing it.
But confession: I hate it hate it hate it. And as soon as the colors get all mixed and they start turning into that muddy purple color, I throw them out and buy new play doh.
anal, I would be.
We have a serious TON of playdoh - gifts from Christmas and Jackson's birthday.
However, I never let him play with it, b/c I hate when the colors get all mixed up, it makes a huge mess, and it always gets dried out b/c he'll hide some of it somewhere and I find it later.
So I'm sure he'll need therapy b/c I am mean.
I only get out one tub at a time. In large part that's because some always ends up on the floor so the less there is to play with, the less is on the floor. And since my 10 month old eats anything and everything that sits still, I'm constantly trying to keep stuff off the floor. And I hate the colors to get mixed.
And now I feel like a bad, anal, noncreative mom because everyone else lets their kids mix it up, even if they secretly cringe inside!